The Hills Have Eyes

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Audience M Plunging it’s comfortable middle-class family into becoming barbarians to protect everyone they love. Wes Craven’s Hills Have Eyes manages to be a key movie shaping horror for decades to come and a brutal illustration of the enduring human spirit. It asks us what we would be willing to become to protect the ones we love. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 11/09/24 Full Review Blu B This is so close to being good. The setup is simple and interesting, it builds tension pretty well, the villians are pretty cool, and overall it's half decently made all around. It defintely has trappings of a exploitation flick though. Some of the actors including the teens aren't the best thing in the world and the older ones are the best ones but there killed off so the acting quality goes downhill. It also gets a bit jumpy between rescuing the baby and trying to call for help. It inturrupts the tension honestly. The low budget feel defintely works in it's favor though overall. I's kind of weird how you'd think there would be more gore iin this but honestly it's pretty tame despite being loaded with violence. It can be a borderline low budget action flick at times. This just needed some better acting, a bit more focus in the script towards the second half, and a bit more suspense. This is a candidate for a remake for sure. If your a hardcore fan of Wes Craven than consider checking this out or hardcore 70's exploitation horror fans. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 10/31/24 Full Review Audience M Plunging it’s comfortable middle-class family into becoming barbarians to protect everyone they love. Wes Craven’s Hills Have Eyes manages to be a key movie shaping horror for decades to come and a brutal illustration of the enduring human spirit. It asks us what we would be willing to become to protect the ones we love. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 11/04/24 Full Review Jonathan O Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes is really disturbing nasty and violent then Last House but Wes did really great work for building up the suspense and violent scenes to shock the audience and Michael Barryman is truly frightening character on film and the cinematography looks like was made for porn but it really does have grindhouse style for people who knew 42nd street or at the drive-in theater. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 09/19/23 Full Review Wayne K The second feature film from horror legend Wes Craven, The Hills Have Eyes lacks the controversial reputation of The Last House On The Left or the mass appeal of A Nightmare On Elm Street, existing in a bizarre middle ground in his filmography. It's nevertheless managed to gain a cult following because of its compelling story and the sense of fear and dread it successfully manifests. Owing a lot to films like Deliverance and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the film follows a group of city folk becoming stranded in remote Nevada and falling prey to a family of depraved cannibals. It explore themes of backwoods savagery and how easily a civilised person can become unstuck when their circumstances turn ugly. Craven incorporates lot of black humour into the story, mostly through his screenplay, full of weird dialogue and odd line deliveries, but when things start getting serious, you really feel a shift in the tone and pace. It's a mostly bloodless film that relies more on threat and menace for its scares than gore and gratuity, a lesson that modern horror filmmakers have still largely failed to learn, and while the fight sequences are often shot so close as to be nearly unseeable, I guess when you work on a minimal budget you don't have the luxury of proper fight choreography. All in all, it doesn't rank among my favourite horror films, but it's certainly one I'd recommend to fans of the genre, and if you have an hour and a half to spare, then I'd say it's more than worth the time. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 07/27/23 Full Review Patrick C This one took me for a ride. Wes Craven is hit or miss for me. The first half of the movie I was having a hard time due to mediocre acting and offensive and stereotypical antagonists and mostly unlikeable protagonists. At some point though I started to get emotionally invested and was really on the edge of my seat. I loved seeing the family fight back and be resourceful. I also love Ruby and the dog and they kinda stole the show for me Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/01/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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